Fernand de Langle de Cary

Fernand de Langle de Cary (4 July 1849-19 February 1927) was a General of the French Army during World War I.

Biography
Fernand de Langle de Cary was born in Lorient, France in 1849, and he joined the French Army in 1869. He was wounded during the Franco-Prussian War, and he went on to rise in the ranks of the general staff and become a professor at the military academy. De Langle de Cary became a General in 1900, commanding a cavalry brigade in Algeria before being placed in command of the Fourth Army during World War I; he was defeated at the Battle of the Ardennes in 1914, defeated at the Second Battle of Champagne in 1915, and removed from command due to his lack of preparations for the German offensive at the Battle of Verdun in 1916. He retired in 1917, and he died in 1927.